Conservative pundit David Brooks rips Palin

Earlier today on ABC's This Week, conservative pundit and New York Times columnist David Brooks ripped right into Sarah Palin (music to my ears). Calling her a "joke" and a "potential talk show host", Brooks mocked the suggestion or belief of many of Palin's supporters that she was qualified to be a leader of the Republican Party.

She's a joke. I mean, I just can't take her seriously. We have got serious problems in the country. Barack Obama is trying to handle war. We just had a guy elected Virginia governor who is probably the model for future of the Republican Party, Bob McDonnell: Pretty serious guy, pragmatic, calm, kind of boring. The idea that this potential talk show host is considered seriously for the Republican nomination, believe me, it will never happen. Republican primary voters are just not going to elect a talk show host.

Although I have to disagree here and state that Republican primary voters will be drawn to Palin (they nominated Bush twice), Brooks must be applauded for his practicality and pragmatism here. Palin is a bible-thumping, bimbo redneck (just like Bush and many others), and like other self-respecting and sane conservatives, Brooks can clearly see Palin for what she is. Last year just before the presidential election, he said Palin "represents a fatal cancer to the Republican Party" and that she was "absolutely not" ready to be president.

PBS' Gwen Ifill replied to Brooks by saying that they shouldn't "underestimate the degree to which women will be drawn to her story. And that is who she is speaking to. These are people who are ignored, who nobody counts into their thinking."

Sorry Gwen. She's not speaking to women. She's speaking to fellow rednecks. Why anyone in the media takes Palin seriously is beyond me.

Palin being blessed by Pastor Thomas Muthee, who asks Jesus to fund her political campaigns, and protect her from witchcraft: